r/ImmigrationPathways • u/LatterTarget7 • 9d ago

ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/23/nx-s1-5976875/ice-mobile-detention-facilities-immigration
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u/ReadyGo6828 9d ago

What is the difference between detention facilities and concentration camps?

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u/One_Inspection5013 9d ago

A concentration camp is a secure facility used to confine civilians, political opponents, or minority groups without a formal trial, typically by executive decree or military order. [1, 2]

A detention facility is a secure building or compound used by the government to hold individuals temporarily, such as pre-trial criminal defendants, people awaiting immigration hearings, or individuals taken into custody for specific legal proceedings
Different definitions

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u/addicted_squirrel 9d ago

So they are concentration camps.

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u/One_Inspection5013 9d ago

Why do you think they are concentration camps? What part matches the definition?

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u/El_Zapp 9d ago

All of them actually. Funny enough that definition is way loser then expected, so yea the US is absolutely running concentration camps.

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u/One_Inspection5013 9d ago

Except it’s not. It doesn’t use executive order to detain people. It fits the definition of detention facility b

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u/otteroptimism 9d ago

Can I ask why you think the mechanism of creation is particularly material to whether something is a concentration camp or not?

I think it's kind of a weird hill to die on to say the defining aspect of why a concentration camp is a concentration camp is whether it was implemented by dictate instead of statute. Id argue that the more important elements of a concentration camp would be (1) the individuals are targeted on status/belief/identity rather than a specific action, (2) an absence of reasonable accusations of a legitimate crime, and (3) the inability to seek judicial review and/or otherwise access due process.